Clothes-back attachment fob boilebs



1 74,495. Patented Apr. 12,1921

E. E. ETAN. CLOTHES RACK ATTACHMENT FOR BOILERS.

' APFLICAT'ION FILED JUNE 16, [920- INVENTOR.

E E'. .E'fan.

- I ATTORNEY,

UNITED STATES PATENT-"OFFICE EMIL n. ETAN, or BQZEMAN, Mo TAiIaYCLOTHES-RACK ATTACHMENT r03 BOILERS. 7

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EMIL E. ETAN, a citi-vzen of the United States, residing at Bozeman, in the county ofGallatinand State of Montana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Clothes-Rack At-.

tachments for Boilers; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of: the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and usethe same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes rack.attachments for boilers and has for its primary object the provision ofmeans whereby clothes may be suspendedabout a boiler so that they willIreadily dry from the heat radiating from. said boiler. 7

Another object of this invention is the provision of an attaching membercapable of double adjustment so that the device may be applied toboilers of various'sizes and which may be readily detached or removedfrom the boiler when desired.

A further obj eot of this invention is the provision of means foradjustably securing clothes supporting arms to said attaching member, sothat the. distance between the suspended clothes may be varied and saidmeans also being capable of permitting the arms to be positioneddownwardly or parallel with the boiler when not in use, so that thedevice will not obstruct or take up a large space when unemployed.

A still further object of this invention is the provision of a clothesrack attachment for boilers of the abovestated character, which shall besimple, durable and efiici'ent, and which may be manufactured and soldat a comparatively low cost.

With these and other objects in view as will become more apparent as thedescrip' tion proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel featuresof construction, combination, and arrangement of parts as will behereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of my invention, reference is'tobe had tothe following description and accompanying drawing, in which o g Figure1 is a side elevation of a boiler illustrating a clothes rack attachmentapplied thereto and constructed in accordance with my invention,

Specification of team Patent. t t D -.12, :92 Application filed June 16,1920. '4 sm-aim. 389,389.

Fig.2 is a plan View illustrating the attaching member, 7 Fig. 3 is afragmentary sectional view illustrating. the double adjustment of theattaching member, 1

Fig. 4: is a perspective view illustrating an arm attaching clip with anarm applied thereto, I

Fig. 5 is a sectional viewof the clip. H Referring in detail to thedrawing, the

member of the split type and is shaped to conform to thecontour of aboiler 2. One end of theband 1 is bent at right angles to form an ear 3provided with an opening to receive a bolt 4 that extendsthrough an ear5 formed on a plate 6. j The plate 6 is curved to conform to-the contourof the band or attaching member 1 and overlies the free end thereof. Theplate 6 has formed on its end a right angled tongue .7 adapted to extendthrough any one of a plurality of slots 8 formed in the bandor'attaching member 1 so that when the ears 5 and 3 are secured togetherby the bolt 4: which is provided with numeral 1 indicates an attachingbandfor a nut 9, the band or attaching member will I be firmly and.tightly, secured about the boiler 2. The bolt 4 extending through theears 3 and 5 provides'one adjustment to the band or attaching member,while the tongue 7 of the plate 6 and the slots 8 provide anarmsl2 and a'bight portion 13. The material after being bent to form the arms 12 isbent rearwardly upon said-arms and parallel with the bight'portion 13 toform ears 14 that engage the inner face of the band or attaching member1 and cooperate with the bight portion 13 in slidably securing" theclips to said band or supportingmember.

The arms 12 are provided with 5 slots to receive the right angledportion 15 of the clothes supporting arm 11 and which has formed thereona head 16 to prevent said right angled portion from moving downwardlythrough said slots. The upper face of the uppermost arm of the clip bentto form spaced flanges 17 that communicate or lead from theslotsftherein. and

lie on each side of the arm 11 so as to prevent sald arm from swinginglaterally in relation to the clip when in a horizontal position therebypreventing clothes supportright angled portions 15 disposedhorizontally, thereby reducing the space which the device will consumewhen in non-clothes supporting position.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdraw ings, it will be noted that a device has been provided which can beeasily and conveniently applied to a boiler and also is capable of beingapplied to boilers of different sizes. Further, it is to'be noted thatthe arms can be'moved and supported rigidly ina horizontal positionandmaybe when desired swung to a position parallel with the boiler, alsothat the arms may be moved inrelation to each other to permit free cir-The slots in the arms'lQ willculation between the clothes supported bysaid arms.

While I have shown and described the preferred embodiment of myinvention, it

will be understood that minor changes in construction, combination, andarrangement of'parts may be made without departing from the spirit andscope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim 1s:

-A clothes rack attachment comprising a band secured about a boiler, aplurality of bent upon themselves and parallel with the.

bight portion to form ears adapted to engage the inner face of the band,and clothes sup porting arms extending through the slots.

In testimony whereof'I aflix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

' Vvitnessesz v W. H. AXTELL," B. T. PUYTON;

EMIL E. Emu. Y

